New Front Office Football in the Works

[Grim.Reaper]

Developer posted this a little while ago in steam forums.....not sure if this is just coming soon type page or ready for selling.....

I know. He knew before I did.

I've been working extremely hard the last few months hoping I could get it done.

My goal tonight here is to get the FOF8 page active.

[Grim.Reaper]

And new page live with available date being tomorrow...number of screen shots as well...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/547900/

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NEW IN VERSION EIGHT

For those of you who have played Front Office Football in the past, there are dozens of new features in the game. This is our most ambitious new product to date, and you'll find it a much more realistic professional football experience.

Custom offensive playbooks. Each year, during training camp, you can create a book of up to 200 offensive plays to use during the season. Of course, as with all the management features in Front Office Football, the game's AI can create a playbook specifically for your team if you like.

New player participation charts. You can select your starters based on personnel groupings. This gives you much more control over who is on the field in every situation.

More realistic game planning. Rather than filling out extensive charts, you can write scripts for the plays your team will run in every situation. Create a list of plays for use in the Two-Minute Drill. Save your best plays for those critical third-and-three situations. This is much closer to how professional teams handle in-game play-calling. On defense, your plan will cover how you react to what your opponent is doing. You'll have fewer choices to make, but the choices will have a big impact on performance.

Instant history (or at least history created as quickly as your computer can run). At the press of a button, you can generate up to 50 seasons of "history" for your league, with the AI running every team.

Enhanced Multi-Player Support. A fuller set of options for maintaining your multi-player games. Additional security features to prevent "hacked" stage files and file compression to shorten load times and reduce the FTP space needed to run a game.

New player cards with quick access to all the information available about each athlete.

Create graphs showing how many wins each franchise has over any time period in your league to highlight potential dynasties.

A playoff probability simulator so that late in the season you can determine each team's chances of reaching the playoffs or gaining a first-round bye.

A brand new menu interface. Front Office Football will never be the prettiest game in the world, but the the new menu will quickly get you any place in the game.

Interface improvements. Switch between using various screens within the game. You can even take advantage of multiple monitors and have all sorts of varied information available at once. Front Office Football has always been about displaying as much information as possible.

Quote of the Day. Every day, you can read a quote from the vast store of collected wisdom within the Front Office Football universe.

Extensive improvements and fine tuning within the game engine. Little was left untouched. The heart of Front Office Football is in the play results and the simulation of thousands and thousands of games.

A 2016 player file and coach file.

[FC]

Excellent, it's looking like a really good progression for an already impressive series.

[Grim.Reaper]

Excellent, it's looking like a really good progression for an already impressive series.

I am hoping...have to admit was hoping the game planning screen would be a little more simplistic, but could be fund creating your own playbooks.....I'll know this time tomorrow:)

[Grim.Reaper]

Manual posted...has some good info especially on creating plays, playbooks, and game planning...

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/547900/manuals/FOFOffensivePhilosophy.pdf?t=1479889384

[Nefaro]

A much needed leap.

The new playbook & game plan features!      O0


I'll buckle like a belt.   

Hope the excellent Logo mod pack I use is still compatible with this one, since the UI got upgraded.

[Grim.Reaper]

Link to both offensive and defensive planning guides...

http://www.solecismic.com/downloads.php

[Grim.Reaper]

Bought and dlownloaded!

[FC]

Ditto, it's been an expensive week but initial impressions are very positive. It took a short while to get used to the new layout and flow of the game but it is much more streamlined than FOF7.

[Grim.Reaper]

Yep, the new layout is taken me some time to actually find stuff....I am sure I'll get use to it.

[Nefaro]

Pretty sure I still have backups of Icy's Glossy Logos somewhere, if anyone needs da best official NFL logo set for FOF. 

The old 2k7 download links are now dead.

Will have to find it for my own install of FOF8.



Hopefully they still work okay.  They still did in FOF7.

[Grim.Reaper]

I believe I have most of the logo mods that were ever posted, Icy had like 3-4 sets and a number of people had them too.  I haven't put them in the game yet but they should work since the screens haven't really change and they only show in 1-2 spots anyway.

[vyshka]

Very tempted. I'd like to see him revisit the college game again at some point as well.